Bukit Merah Town Council’s negligence caused girl, 7, to fall through railings?

Posted by on March 9, 2009 55 Comments

Excerpt from Today (9 March 2009):

At the time of the mishap, a picnic mat had been hung to air over the gap in the railing. Siti had been playing nearby. “I think she was crawling behind it, and then suddenly we saw the mat move and then we realised she had fallen,” said Mr Muhammad Azman, 24, a family friend.

Mr Muhammad and Siti’s uncle Muhammad Syukri had been sitting nearby at the landing, playing the guitar. “She knows not to play there,” said Mr Muhammad Syukri, 20, currently unemployed. “We always warn her not to run around too close.”

It was he who reportedly called the town council three months ago about the broken railing. He claimed he was told someone would be sent to check on it. “I didn’t hear from them, I don’t know if they came or not.”

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Her family said the gap was reported in December to the Bukit Merah Town Council. But the latter last night said it could find no record of the call.

Read the full report here.

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Bukit Merah Town Council is under Tangor Pagar GRC Constituency.

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55 Responses to “Bukit Merah Town Council’s negligence caused girl, 7, to fall through railings?”

  1. market2garden 13 March 2009

    Give U all some facts.
    Sam Tan’s Division – Voting for Neighbourhood Renewal Program and Life Upgrading Program.- Telok Blangah Way Precinct
    Duration: Feb 27, 2009 (Fri) to Mar 10, 2009 (Tue).
    Most TC staff helping the voter to vote, and handle feedback on the spot, but most of the time they never note down the requests and the particulars of complainants, so where’s the reponse feedback later on? What they concerned during this period are the votes. And of course, free popcorn, free drinks and free shows during the 3-hr presence of MP.

  2. market2garden 13 March 2009

    BTW, there’s no Bukit Merah Town Council, only Tanjong Pagar Town Council.

    To convey the feedback across, email to the officer, cc or bcc to MP and chairman of TC, general manager of TC. And then call the officer by phone. The whole process needed 5W1H to get things done.

  3. I Agree with #50, BDH Squatter 14 March 2009

    I share the same sentiment as you BDH squatter.

  4. Rainnix 15 March 2009

    Moving forward, I think that next time we should video down the defect, and the process of alerting the authorities and post it in youtube as evidence. So that even they delete the messages, they can’t deny the call had been made.

    We have really, really spoiled the RC, TC, grassroots, ministers by voting them during the polls.

  5. market2garden 25 March 2009

    #54
    My Youtube market2garden channel is not use for this purpose.

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